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Happy Birthday, Chuck Berry !!!

October 19, 2008

HAIL, HAIL ROCK 'N' ROLL THE MASTER TURNS 82 TODAY! “Wanna see my ding-a-ling?" There are some musicians threaded into the DNA of things and there's zero doubt that an intrinsic part of rock's double helix is Chuck Berry. A pair of quotes at the beginning of his Wikipedia entry sum it up well: ...

Clax Speaks, Hefti Swings

October 19, 2008

William Claxton, the master photographer who died a week ago, was a great raconteur. A sample of that side of his personality is available on the internet. In 1988, Terri Gross interviewed Claxton on her National Public Radio program Fresh Air. He discussed his experiences photographing, among others, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan and Chet ...

Award-Winning Ambrosia Restaurant Announces New Fall Menu

October 19, 2008

The award-winning Ambrosia Restaurant is pleased to announce the new winter menu is now available. The 5-star Ambrosia Restaurant features contemporary French cuisine and is located inside the OC Pavilion performing arts center in Santa Ana. The menu changes with the seasons to ensure that guests are offered the best choices, including seafood, steaks, chicken, lamb ...

Happy Birthday, Wynton Marsalis

October 18, 2008

Equally accomplished at jazz and classical music, bandleader and trumpeter Wynton Marsalis was the first jazz musician to win the Pulitzer Prize. The Early Years Wynton Marsalis was born on October 18, 1961, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Musical roots run deep in his family; his father is jazz pianist Ellis Marsalis, and three of Wynton’s ...

Santana:multi-Dimensional Warrior

October 18, 2008

By: Alex Borsody Santanas Multi-Dimensional Warrior (released October 14 on Sony Legacy) is a double-disc collection of selections meant to emphasize the spiritual side of his music. The usual culprits - “Black Magic Women," Oye Como Va" and “Smooth" - are overlooked in favor of more obscure selections. What sets this compilation apart from the seemingly ...

Aaron Parks: To the Big Screen, and Back to the Jazz Scene

October 17, 2008

"Aaron Parks: Seattle's Boy Genius" is not the story anymore. The local jazz piano prodigy, who went to the University of Washington straight out of junior high, is now 25, living in New York City for the past eight years. He's moved into movies, assisting his mentor Terence Blanchard on soundtracks for Spike Lee's Katrina documentary ...

Correspondence: On William Claxton

October 16, 2008

William Claxton's cover shots appeared on ten CDs produced in Los Angeles by Dick Bank. The photographer's last project for Bank was the cover photograph for the 2006 Andy Martin-Jan Lundgren album How About You? Bank sent this note following Claxton's death last weekend. I had the idea for the cover to be a trombone ...

Focusing the Spotlight: A Little More About Ritmo Masacote

October 15, 2008

Happy Birthday, Thelonious Monk!

October 15, 2008

JAZZ'S GRAND TRICKSTER WOULD HAVE BEEN 91 THIS WEEK There's no one quite like Thelonious Monk. His impact on the instrument of piano, jazz and music as a whole is beyond comprehension. He's one of those rare individuals whose imagination and fearlessness break up the calcification that builds up on music and frees it ...

Other Places: The Guardian's John Fordham

October 14, 2008

For more thirty years, John Fordham has been favoring the British public with his finely-honed critiques and observations about jazz. Most of his work has appeared in the newspaper The Guardian, but he is also the author of an entertaining and informative history of jazz. Fordham is a full-range listener with good ears and a writer ...